Original page created on 19/10/2015; updated on 25/05/2023.
Roco 45210.1
DEV 62 type Vru dining car.
UIC number | Revision date |
61 87 88-70 012-7 1 | 25.10.83 |
153 g (NEM: 113 to 146 g)
As often, the notice is silent about the assembly of some parts, here the kitchen aerators, which in addition the mounting hole is much wider than the tenon, thus giving some uncertainty on their real position.
Like the UIC Roco cars, it is too low by about 1 mm with a
difference of 0.5 mm between the two ends. Wheels a bit too big
and not burnished. I don’t know whether the shade of red has changed
at the transition from metallic grey to cement grey, otherwise, this
red is too bright compared to that of the photo here, even with all
the usual precautions concerning the colours of photos. There are a
number of small mistakes, such as these.
The Y26 bogies do not disassemble easily, their snapping is hard. Once removed, the drawbars are no longer held and can escape very easily.
See:
Coaches made in 42 units by CIMT-Lorraine and Brissonneau & Lotz, delivered between 1966 and 1968, numbered 61 87 88-70 001-0 to 042-4.
General dimensions are identical to UIC Y coaches. Bogies Y 26C. Speed limit 160 km/h (200 km/h for three units assigned to the train “Le Capitole”). Mass in running order: 48 t. 52-seat dining room. These coaches were autonomous thanks to their generator, and they had air conditioning (Stone Carrier).
Different liveries were successively applied (images from mlgtraffic):
Note: the name DEV 66 is often used for these coaches; this is their delivery date. But, according to La Vie du Rail at the time, it’s indeed the type 1962.
Incidentally, one of these coaches was installed in the car park of the secondary
school where I spent most of my career (Paul Eluard in St Denis) in the 1990s, to become a
… restaurant, named Le Rail d’Ouessant. Painted in turquoise, it served as a training centre for tableware.
Warning: this restaurant is now closed. More on the Parisien newspaper website.
Photo Pierre B on forum.e-train.fr.
Dimension | Actual | 1:87 | Model |
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Overall length | 24 500 | 281.6 | 281.5 |
Body length | 24 120 | 277.2 | 277.5 |
Chassis length | 23 200 | 266.7 | 266.0 |
Width | 2 880 | 33.1 | 33.3 |
Height | 4 050 | 46.6 | 45.6 1 |
Pivot distance | 17 200 | 197.7 | 197.8 |
Bogie wheelbase (Y26) | 2 500 | 28.7 | 28.3 |
Wheel diameter | 920 | 10.6 | 11.0 |
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Era IVb (non-metallic grey). Only ref. 44618 would therefore be in my reference era IVa. Home base Ourck with a big misspelling: it’s Ourcq for those who don’t know!